LINDA DOUNIA REBEIZ


Linda Dounia Rebeiz is an artist and designer who investigates the philosophical and environmental implications of technocapitalism. She is inspired by science fiction, speculative design, solarpunk, and degrowth. 

Her work mediates her memories as alternative truths and evidence of excluded ways of being and doing. It is formed through the dialogue (and tensions) between analogue and digital mediums. 

In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIMEAI100 list of most influential people in AI for her work on speculative archiving – building AI models that help us remember what we have lost. 



TV WAS MY BEST FRIEND

Animation + Generative Sketch
(2021—2024)


TV Was My Best Friend is a body of work that reimagines the SMPTE bands that filled so much of my days as a child and were, incidentally, my first introduction to digital art and design.We only had the national TV program at home growing up. It started early in the morning and ended late afternoons. The rest of the time, the screen played a faint beep over SMPTE colour bands. I used to sit and stare at it before and after school, thinking that if I stared long enough, something would happen. The world moved around me as I sat there absorbing the colours.

This body of work, Sandwyrm Errors, has particular significance to me because so much of my childhood took place while watching SMPTE bands. Most times I watched in silence, sometimes I hummed to the beep, or even did my homework in front of it. Adult conversations and quarrels seeped through my consciousness as this happened.

I wanted to reimagine the SMPTE bands to thank them for filling so much of my day, and being my inadvertent introduction to digital design. There are 24 pieces in this collection: 3 animations on Foundation, 6 experiments sold privately on Opensea, and 15 stills on Hicetnunc.











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